If you haven’t heard by now, some students at the North Idaho STEM Charter Academy are building a satellite for a NASA mission.

“Project DaVinci” is the only high school project to be selected for the CubeSat Space Mission NASA is scheduled to launch in June 2017. The team’s CubeSat — a class of research spacecraft also called nanosatellites — is about the size of a loaf of bread and will literally be shoved from a NASA rocket into Earth’s orbit.

“Project DaVinci” was selected by NASA specifically for its education focus. The satellite will be a time capsule, hosting digital media of the world today and it will have an interactive component.

“We want to get kids around the world excited about STEM education, STEM careers and STEM fields,” said the team’s logistics lead, Paige Pence.

Once in orbit, people on Earth can go online and use a virtual reality program to control the camera on board to look at Earth or the Sun.

The team has been connecting with schools around the country and the world to get in on the action. Their goal is to get at least one school in each country to participate in their satellite program.

Schools will be able to interact with the project by using the team’s website to download lesson plans for all age groups. Each lesson focuses on space and uses STEM curriculum.

One of the lesson plans will help students find the satellite’s position in relation to Earth and receive radio signals. Students can also learn about Morse code from the signals they receive from the satellite.

Other lesson plans include making a comet out of dry ice and using a video game to learn about simple spacecraft designs like thrust and weight.

“Our satellite will also take part in the first ever bitcoin transaction from space,” sad Joe Broder, the team’s ground support lead. “People who are connecting with the satellite online with their bitcoin wallets out can catch a fraction of a bitcoin as it rains down from space.”

Since its inception, “Project DaVinci” has received recognition in many unexpected places.

Singer/songwriter Taylor Swift found out about the project and offered to put one of her albums on the satellite. Another celebrity, Joss Whedon — the producer of the sci-fi TV show "Firefly" and who wrote and directed "The Avengers" — will also be submitting parts of his works to be taken into space.

The team is currently reaching out to President Obama’s administration to see if the president wants to send a copy of his legacy into space as well.

Since the students don’t have the resources or know-how to build a satellite, they outsourced the construction to a company in Scotland called Clyde Space.

The students still get to design the satellite and they have a plethora of impressive mentors to help them.

Some of their mentors include Burt Rutan, an aerospace engineer who built SpaceShipOne — the first private spaceship to go into space — and Julian Guthrie, a San Francisco-based journalist and author of the book “How to Make a Spaceship.”

The satellite in total will cost about $250,000 to design, build, transport to the launch site and launch.

Though the cost is very cheap for anything space-related, it is a large amount for the group of high schoolers in North Idaho.

The team is hoping they raise enough money so its members can travel to New Zealand and watch the launch.

The group of students is fundraising on kickstarter.com and currently has about $8,000 in donations. Donors can send their favorite song, TV show or video game into space, depending on how much they donate.

To receive the Idaho tax credit, donation checks can be sent to North Idaho STEM Charter Academy or a card can be used online at the project’s website, projectdavincicubesat.org.

“We want to make space accessible to everyone once again,” said project lead Jessica Millard. “Thanks to social media, we are able to give everyone a personal connection to space exploration.”